today’s fun facts

A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book [ Going Rogue ] sold a staggering 300,000 copies on the first day alone, which was Tuesday. “Sales are phenomenal, and we are convinced that the book will continue to sell phenomenally for some time to come,” says the insider. They’re not prevaricating: As of 2:30pm today, the book was #1 on Amazon…

While Hannity’s audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue aboard at the start of her national book tour well exceeded the 2 million-plus turnout that the FOX evening news got with a long-sought Obama interview, both shows were ratings leaders for the No. 1 cable news network:

Hannity’s ratings were his second-highest for the year, according to the Nielsen Media Research count, and he beat the network’s top-drawing Bill O’Reilly, who had 3.868 million viewers Wednesday night.

Nielsen found that FOX News Channel’s Hannity drew 4.2 million viewers with Palin’s appearance - far surpassing the competition in the time slot: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, with 957,000 viewers, and CNN’s Larry King, with 835,000.

FOX’s Special Report with Bret Baier, airing an interview of Obama conducted by FOX White House correspondent Major Garrett in China, drew 2.235 million viewers - a number which FOX will take as a sign of playng to a wide audience.

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/19 at 06:34 PM •
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When did this noble building become a symbol of corrupt tyranny?



This is now an Open Thread.
Enjoy.

DougM (commissarophobe)
11/19 at 04:22 PM •
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Obamunism



DougM (commissarophobe)
11/19 at 04:05 PM •
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ToDaZeD Raaaaasist Post

and warning . . .

Friday, November 20, is “National Kick a Ginger Day”.

Ok - so this is another one of those pathetically impotent Canadian ”Holidays”, mostly cuz Canada has to import their minorities.  I mean, sure—they’ve got Eskimos, but seriously....  Ya wanna kick someone who kills and eats polar bears?  With pointy sticks?!?  Ermm, No.  So who’s left—that’s right:  us gingers.  Lame, but there ya have it.

BTW, anyone wanting to bring this hate crime festival to The States be warned:  we’re erm… they might be armed.  Ya never know, yanno?

Mætenloch

Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Mobster Ruralist
11/19 at 01:52 PM •
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she was asking for it

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This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals. And we see that in the way that men like her much more than women do…

goldstar.jpgKathyShaidle

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/19 at 12:21 PM •
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he did it his way

Major Nidal Hasan seemed worried about the results of an HIV blood test taken a week before the Fort Hood shooting rampage, according to federal investigators piecing together background details on Hasan’s life.

The information came from a member of the Fort Hood medical staff who was in the building where Hasan is accused of opening fire on November 5 and killing 13 people.

The investigators said there was no indication that Hasan was HIV positive, although a bottle of medicine used to treat HIV-positive individuals, Combivir, was seen in Hasan’s apartment by ABC News last week. Medical experts say many doctors also have Combivir on hand in case of an accidental needle stick. A second drug seen in the apartment, clarithromycin, is an antibiotic designed to treat respiratory infections. However, it can also be used to treat specific opportunistic infections in patients with HIV.

Hasan, who is not married, was a regular at a Killeen, Texas strip club which features nude dancers, according to employees there…

Investigators said Hasan followed his own strict interpretation of how a Muslim should live --

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/19 at 11:48 AM •
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Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.

You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.

Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer more prosperous world for all of us.”

He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. ”That’s what you call an applause line,” he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.

No word if their salary increase would be a cost of living raise or combat pay.....

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/19 at 11:39 AM •
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wai to go mom

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Mother says school work sheet is racist

Lenape Middle School principal Nick Chubb said administrators are investigating the matter.
When she was helping her son with his homework Saturday night, a Central Bucks mother noticed something that surprised and shocked her.
I couldn’t understand what I was looking at,” ...

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FARK

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/19 at 07:56 AM •
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nice golf course you got there


RUSH: Would you like to hear an interesting little Biden story?  He was in Las Vegas recently, where corporate executives have been discouraged from going by President Obama; getting on their planes, flying to Vegas—those days are over.  But “Nobody Messes With Joe [Plugs] Biden”—was in Las Vegas to do a fundraiser for some Democrat out there, and had an aide call a local members-only golf course, a pretty exclusive members-only golf course. The club pro who answered the phone said, “No, no, no. Sorry. We like the vice president and all that, but this is a members-only club,” and they hung up the phone.

A short while later another phone call came, this time asking for the manager of the club.  The message was: “Look, [Plugs] Biden really wants to play your course.” The call came in at 7 a.m., and he wanted to play that day.  The second call came in before 8 a.m., I’m told.  The club manager, realizing what he was being told, relented, and Plugs Biden showed up with some Secret Service guys at 11 a.m. to play the course.

Now, keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that corporate executives and the entire hospitality business have been under assault by this very president and vice president.  They can’t go to Vegas, they’re not supposed to hop on their planes and go to Vegas, they’re not supposed to play golf at exclusive members-only clubs.  I will guarantee you, if a Republican vice president had done this, the media would right now be scouring the membership to find out how discriminatory it is.  Are there any blacks in this club that the vice president played? Are there any Jewish members of this club? Do they allow women?  That’s what the media would be doing right now.

The only story we’re getting out of this is a local Las Vegas newspaper, and, of course, this is how the elites do it: They want to go play golf where they’re not a member, they want to angle themselves in using the force of federal power and intimidation, they do it.  The media doesn’t say a word about it.  They say, “Old Joe is out there playing golf before a fundraiser, there’s Joe Cool.” Republicans try that and the media takes on the club trying to find out who belongs, who was not admitted, and why.  And then they would also be doing stories about, “Here we are in a recession, 10.2% unemployment, we got Marines dying and military people dying in Afghanistan, we’re dithering on whether we should win the war over there, nothing is going right, the president’s out of the country, the vice president wants to play golf and all?”—that’s what we’d be getting if Plugs were a Republican.  But we’re not getting anything of the sort. 

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/18 at 08:54 PM •
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get back on the plantation, boy

The Rev. Jesse ["the overseer"] Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” ...

Shut up! I’ll tell you what blacks have to do. Blacks belong to me. *whipcrack*
(Lagreeist jackass)

Conyers ain’t too all-fired happy. What’s Jesse say?

DougM (commissarophobe)
11/18 at 07:13 PM •
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rockstah!

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Before sunrise, fans of Sarah Palin wait in line at Woodland Mall to get a bracelet to see Sarah Palin and get her signed autographed book, “Going Rogue.” Palin starts signing books at 6 pm.

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/18 at 06:10 PM •
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How will History judge 2009?


Here’s the protocol.
Oh, just a tiny thing: one target was the building and personnel of US military headquarters.
Not for profit and not for loot, the objective was military; and the attack was an act of war.
This civil prosecution is either an act of foolishness, or an act of treachery.

DougM (commissarophobe)
11/18 at 06:01 PM •
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today’s wedgie

give a listen...this is goooood


SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R-S.C): Can you give me a case in United States history where a enemy combatant caught on a battlefield was tried in civilian court?




ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL: I don’t know. I’d have to look at that. I think that, you know, the determination I’ve made --

GRAHAM: We’re making history here, Mr. Attorney General. I’ll answer it for you. The answer is no.

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/18 at 04:35 PM •
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“shut up,” he legislated

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Dear Colleague:

Please join me in co-sponsorship of a resolution, H. Con. Res. 155, to designate the day prior to Thanksgiving as Complaint Free Wednesday.

From time to time, we all experience anxiety, frustration, stress, and regret. And often, we respond to these feelings with a criticism or a complaint. Regrettably, complaining keeps people stuck on current problems, inhibiting them from thinking constructively to find solutions…

Y’know, my memory’s hazy so correct me if I’m wrong...but even at the very peak of Bush hatred, when the nonstop cries of shrill outrage hit a pitch even small dogs can’t hear, I can’t recall ANYONE in the government, congressman Cleaver included, suggesting anything even remotely like this.

apotheosis
11/18 at 12:38 PM •
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pass him a law that he can’t refuse
DougM (commissarophobe)
11/18 at 10:46 AM •
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I hate todaze Lympians

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Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University trying to figure out what makes one group of people hate another. He is developing a new academic field on the topic though the Institute for Action Against Hate at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash.

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/18 at 10:38 AM •
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First Seize the Language…

and another term for this...?

On his maiden Asia swing, Obama has made a vivid display of his own trademark style — the diplomacy of deference.

...

White House aides say the approach is deliberate — part of Obama’s determination to deliver on his campaign promise of directly engaging friends and enemies alike, giving America a less belligerent posture abroad.

I think it’s very important for the United States not to assume that what is good for us is automatically good for somebody else,” Obama told the students at the town hall, in Shanghai. “And we have to have some modesty about our attitudes towards other countries.”

Yeah.  Human Dignity and Freedom of the Individual—just another choice among equals…

The approach also invests deep faith in the power of Obama’s personal presence—a belief that a calm and reasonable style will summon calm and reasonable responses around the world.

“He believes in vigorous engagement around the world — in strong alliances, in confronting our adversaries and standing up for human rights by making these points in a very public way,” Axelrod said. “He is confident. He’s someone who’s leading from strength and a deep belief in who America is and what we stand for. That confidence is reflected in the way he conducts himself on the world stage.”

He really thinks we’re all on drugs, doesn’t he?

A senior administration official called the bow to Emperor Akihito a “sign of respect,” adding that the depth of the bow reflected “the level of respect.”

“This is part of what the president says all the time — that he wants to be mindful of other cultures,” the official said. “That doesn’t take anything away from our culture.”

mindful

Axelrod said skepticism about Obama’s approach is a reflection of the nation’s “A.D.D. political culture, in which every day is Election Day and people want all results immediately.

Keep molesting that chicken, David.  We buy it—Mmm… mmm ...mmm.

Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Mobster Ruralist
11/18 at 09:28 AM •
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fact checking Levi’s johnston

Levi Johnston was lie-telling about how much he bared for Playgirl. Despite reports, he didn’t pose full frontal.

~ * ~

People who will be viewing online or in print are going to be short changed. A spokesperson for Playgirl told Us magazine that Johnston did not go full frontal and essentially called his camp a bunch of lairs for suggesting as much.

Sorry, guys.

AgentBedhead

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/18 at 10:06 AM •
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cha-clank!

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In 2002 Responsible Travel became one of the first travel companies to offer customers the option of buying so-called carbon offsets to counter the planet-warming emissions

But in October, Responsible Travel canceled the program, saying that while it might help travelers feel virtuous, it was not helping to reduce global emissions. In fact, company officials said, it might even encourage some people to travel or consume more.

“The carbon offset has become this magic pill, a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card,” Justin Francis, the managing director of Responsible Travel, said in an interview. “It’s seductive to the consumer who says, ‘It’s $4 and I’m carbon-neutral, so I can fly all I want.“‘

Offsets, he argues, are distracting people from making more significant behavioral changes, like flying less.

duh

SondraK, Lympian Slayer
11/18 at 09:43 AM •
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the art of self importance

(unless it’s the other way around)

Being with all these inspired people seems to have filled my head with a zillion ideas for musical endeavours that could easily save the world.

Easily.

My response was to place a park bench on a newly formed iceberg or floating ice-shelf off the fast-moving coast of West Greenland. A bench which, in its fragility and remoteness, becomes a silent witness of the dramatic changes that are occurring in the Arctic.

A bench with nobody to sit on.

The rest.  Please bring your own 100% post-consumer recycled barf bag.

apotheosis
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

Huh...well, the “clip” is over 17 minutes long....maybe it is the whole thing.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
~~~~~
SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

http://www.dennismillerradio.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=301&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD04MTUwJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPTMwMSZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9MQ==

There’s a clip right below the header of the page. The whole audio archive is pay-for.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
~~~~~
Elvis, Formerly Gruntled American said:

Sarah is a force.
No matter how the state-run-media try to frame her, she is true to herself.
I hope she picks up some teflon in the next year.
We need her to keep the heat on conservatives to take nothing for granted.
The dark side is relentless in its quest for power.
Sarah is the sunlight from which the demonrats cower.

008

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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Bobb Cobb said:

mojo, dead link.

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

JR said her interview with Dennis Miller was the best so far. Awesome. She was very comfortable. It’s nice that she’s being able to just be herself and have fun.
I’m going to try to find it.....

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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mojo said:

More than that. I grabbed a copy last night, been reading. The email doesn’t really mean much, it looks like someone’s personal “save” spool, split into individual files, and not all of that. Might be some interesting threads, but that will take a while to stitch together. For what it’s worth, I havent found any of the common signs of email fakery in the headers that are there. They aren’t all.

The real action will be in the Fortran90 code. This looks like the stuff they were going all psycho about keeping secret, “Intellectual Property” and all that, as if academics didn’t give that shit away every day. This code, it seems, is “special” - gonna make ‘em a fortune or something.

Some other notes:
A “thematic project” with the acronym PRESCIENT (arrived at after Herculean efforts at capitalization)

Dr. Phil seems a “right prat”, and Mike Mann rather thuggish. Not a pretty pair.

in 'hot off the press'.
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Hog Whitman - Bizarre Czar said:

I don’t know why it is that Chicks with Chainsaws turns me on, and in a way that the the word “naughty” would need a few more syllabbles just to describe it, but it just does.

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I know… I need help.

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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raz0r said:

I never tire of her.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
~~~~~
DougM (commissarophobe) said:

I’ll give it 72hrs. before I believe it.

in 'hot off the press'.
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raz0r said:

Do like security reseearchers do with Microsoft.  You have x # of days, then we release details and exploit code.  Enterprise customers get wind of a possible problem and start burning up the phones, etc. in Redmond.

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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Melissa, seething in Texas said:

Done and sent!

in 'Operation Warm Hearts Warm Hands'.
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mojo said:

http://m.sfgate.com/topic/3538-Weird News/articles/194649675

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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LLoyd said:

And you’ve heard about the email going out from the ‘Red Shirts’ I’ll call them asking for $500,000 because she’s “dangerous”.

Obama organizing group: Palin book tour “dangerous”
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/20/obama-organizing-group-palin-book-tour-dangerous/

Bah Ha! She hasn’t lost any of her mojo from when she first appeared last year. Yee Ha.

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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Gus (RWE & certified Infidel) said:

Brilliant application of modern technology for an extremely worthwhile purpose!

in 'today's honorary KisPers LTE of the day'.
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Elvis, Formerly Gruntled American said:

From my fifteenth birthday, until well into my forties, I did at least one set of 50 proper press-ups each and every day. 
I forgot when I let that slide a leetle bit.
These days I still do a set of 40 every few days just to prove to meself that I haven’t gone completely to mush.

Hmm.  *gets eyedeer for a useful New Year’s restitution*

I pledge, starting January 1, 2010, to do at least one set of 50 push-ups every gall danged day until at least December 31, 2010.

I ain’t starting until the first of the year because I need to build myself up from my current 40 to 50 at a set.  Piece of piss. 
So let it be written, so it shall be done.

008

in 'tonight's audience participation'.
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Henri'-Claude said:

good grief....maybe someone who hasn’t lost their mind would do us all a favor and go to that store
to make an organic-free-expression-art masterpiece right in the middle of one of the aisles....
a surprise for the open-minded supercompassionate liberals there.....
lots of paper already available in the Hillary Clinton and Rosie Odonnel aisle so no worries in that regard.

in 'free thinkers'.
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Elvis, Formerly Gruntled American said:

This one time at band camp.............

in 'tonight's audience participation'.
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cbullitt said:

Awesome Art.

in 'hot off the press'.
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer said:

I love this place.

in 'tonight's audience participation'.
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iDaemon, who doesn't bow to anyone said:

Drip… drip… drip…

in 'a kick in the nuts, cont'd'.
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